The Rebellious Image: Germaine Dulac and the Feminine Imagination in Surrealism

On the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to filmmaker Germaine Dulac, a pioneer in avant-garde film and a key figure in cinematographic surrealism, the Museu Tàpies has organised a debate centred on exploring the symbolic, aesthetic and political realm of the feminine imagination in surrealism.

From a critically rigorous and poetically attuned perspective, the event constitutes a space for reflection on the forms in which female artists and thinkers have intervened in, expanded or subverted the codes of surrealism, often conceived from a masculine perspective. Debate participants will consider questions such as the construction of the body and desire, feminine authorship within the avant-garde and the relationship between cinema, dreams and symbolic liberation.

“The Rebellious Image: Germaine Dulac and the Feminine Imagination in Surrealism” is an invitation to rethink avant-garde narratives on the basis of gesture, symbolism and rupture, while likewise paying attention to how an avant-garde movement that was able to transform the invisible into image and desire in language, might resonate in our day.

PROGRAMME

6 pm. Presentation of the session, by the Museu Tàpies

6.10 pm. Tami Williams, “Germaine Dulac and Long Impressionist Cinema”

6.40 pm. Julia Ramírez Blanco, “Poetics of the Anti-Fascist Body”

7.10 pm. Elena Castro Córdoba, “Dance, Images, Dance!”

7.40 pm. Debate with Tami Williams, Julia Ramírez Blanco and Elena Castro Córdoba, moderated by Bruna Lo Biundo

20.15 h. Closing